Overview

When it comes to cesarean section, there is opinion and there is fact. This particular effort is made to eliminate the former, and to extend the latter. This 200-page textbook presents 56 illustrations of surgical scenes, nuances and principles of this unique surgery, covering indications, contraindications, surgical alternatives, global expenditures on elective cesarean sections, complications, rare cases (abdominal pregnancy), anesthesiological strategies and complications, the trial of labor (TOL), tips for presurgical orders, postsurgical maternal neural circuits and depression, neonatal adaptation, perimortem c-section, cesarean myomectomy and total hysterectomy, legal issues, as well as review scenarios and review questions.